Published date: 28 February 2023

Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.


Closing: 25 March 2020, 3pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Anaesthesia and resuscitation - 33170000

Location of contract

United Kingdom

Value of contract

£105,230,000

Procurement reference

Rapid Manufacture Ventilator System-Direct purchase agreement for Prima ES02 model 10000 Units

Published date

28 February 2023

Closing date

25 March 2020

Closing time

3pm

Contract start date

26 March 2020

Contract end date

7 June 2020

Contract type

Supply contract

Procedure type

Other: Award of a contract without prior publication of a call for competition in the Official Journal of the European Union in Additional Information. Please refer to attachment area for full justification

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No


Description

The 'Ventilator Challenge' was created by the UK government and delivered across several government departments (Department of Health and Social Care, Cabinet Office and Ministry of Defence) as part of the drive to increase ventilator supply and support the UK National Health Service (NHS) in its response to the Coronavirus disease global pandemic (Covid-19).

In March 2020, the Prime Minister called on manufacturers to help the UK to step up production of ventilators to support the UK's response to the virus and save lives. This included working on new or adapted ventilator designs, as well the Government's work to buy ventilators from abroad.


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This contract was awarded as a result of the RMVS project.

RMVS CANs

Existing CANs relating to the RMVS project are 2020/S 100-243206, 2020/S 167-406004 and 2021/S 002-003456 (RMVS CANs).

Due to the need to respond rapidly to the emerging situation, some design work, testing, developing and manufacturing was undertaken before a formalised contract with known costs and outputs was put in place between Cabinet Office and those RMVS suppliers at the time of the RMVS CANs.

Instead Cabinet Office gave commitments to those RMVS suppliers to enable those suppliers to support the RMVS project at significant pace and to mitigate those suppliers operating entirely at risk during extremely turbulent and changing circumstances. The RMVS CANs reflected the estimated values as best known at the time and cost caps within which suppliers were operating.

At the time of the RMVS CANs, in order to be as transparent as possible with the market, information available at the time of entering into those commitments was provided, notwithstanding that it was expected to take several months to settle on the final output and resulting contracts.

The RMVS CANs were therefore published to notify the market of the estimated and maximum limits of the commitments Cabinet Office had entered into to support the RMVS project. Where a supplier appears on more than one RMVS CAN, this reflects an increase to the estimate or cost cap previously notified to the market.

This contract is the Ventilator Challenge: Provision of Rapid Manufacture Ventilator Systems (RMVS) resulting from the support by Penlon Ltd to the RMVS project and which is the output of Penlon Ltd appearing on 2020/S 100-243206 of the RMVS CANs.


Award information

Awarded date

26 March 2020

Contract start date

26 March 2020

Contract end date

7 June 2020

Total value of contract

£105,230,000

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

PENLON LIMITED

Address

Abingdon Science Park,Barton Lane
ABINGDON
Oxfordshire
OX14 3NB
GB

Reference

Companies House number: 03228364

Value of contract

£105,230,000

Supplier is SME?

Yes

Supplier is VCSE?

No


About the buyer

Address

39 Old Hall Street
Liverpool
L39PP
England

Telephone

+44 08009981098

Email

cco@cabinetoffice.gov.uk

Website

www.gov.uk/ccs